Georg Wieninger (agronomist)
Georg Wieninger (born April 5, 1859 in Schärding , † November 3, 1925 in Vienna ) was an Austrian beer brewer , politician and agricultural scientist . He pioneered the development of agriculture in Upper Austria .
Life
Georg Wieninger was born as the son of the Schärdinger brewery and estate owner Georg Wieninger (1832–1887) and his wife Therese born. Baumgartner (1836–1918) born. He was a great-grandson of the Vilshofen brewer Georg Wieninger .
Wieninger received his training first at the Schärding elementary school, then in Linz, Passau, Nuremberg, Hohenheim, at the University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences and at the University of Veterinary Medicine in Vienna. He was trained as a reserve officer in Linz and Wels.
After his father's death in 1887, he took over the management of the Wieninger brewery in Schärding and the family estate in Otterbach near St. Florian am Inn , where he also built a private museum for his collections from agriculture, natural history, folklore and ethnology. It led Otterbach as a sample property with a focus on animal and plant breeding through to dairy farming, fertilization teaching and mechanical engineering. In the 1890s he added an estate with coffee plantations in Bernalcue near Asunción , San Bernardino Province , Paraguay . In 1911 he had to file for bankruptcy for all possessions and the Otterbach model estate, which was then taken over by the state of Upper Austria.
In 1890 Wieninger founded an adult education center geared to the needs of the rural population , in 1899 the agricultural-chemical research institute (predecessor of today's Federal Institute for Agricultural Biology ) in Linz, in 1900 the First Central Tea Butter Sales Cooperative (predecessor of the Schärdinger Dairy Association ), and in 1910 the agricultural women's school and a rural housekeeping school, today the Otterbach Agricultural College . From 1914 he worked in the Ministry of Agriculture as a consultant for poultry farming. In 1915 he also became a lecturer at the Veterinary University and in 1922 private lecturer at the University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences. In public offices, Wieninger was Vice Mayor of Schärding, President of the Upper Austrian Agricultural Society and, in 1904, the Paraguayan Honorary Consul.
Wieninger died of heart failure in Vienna in 1925 . His body was cremated in the new Simmering fire hall , and the urn was later buried in the Wieninger family crypt at the Schärding city cemetery. He left his wife Franziska geb. Zach (1869–1954), a daughter and two sons.
literature
- Theodor Brückler: Heir to the throne Franz Ferdinand as curator of monuments: The "art files" of the military chancellery in the Austrian State Archives (war archive) . Vienna: Böhlau 2009 (Studies on Monument Protection and Preservation Volume 20), pp. 301 f., 604. ISBN 3-205-78306-9 , ISBN 978-3-205-78306-0 (online) .
- Franz Dickinger: Georg Wieninger and his ancestors. An Innviertel family as a pioneer in adult education. In: Upper Austrian homeland sheets . Volume 32, Issue 3/4, Linz 1978, pp. 329–335, online (PDF) in the forum OoeGeschichte.at.
- Wilhelm Filla, Elke Gruber, Jurij Jug: Adult Education from 1848 to 1900 . Studies, 1998, p. 99. ISBN 3-7065-1268-8 , ISBN 978-3-7065-1268-8 .
- Berta Friedl-Sieglhuber: Georg Wieninger (1859–1925). A pioneer in rural adult education . In: Martha Friedenthal-Haase (Ed.): Personality and Biography in the History of Adult Education (= studies on pedagogy, andragogy and gerontology. Volume 38). Peter Lang Verlag, Frankfurt am Main a. a. 1998, pp. 559-575.
- Alfred Hoffmann: Reg-Rat Ing. Georg Wieninger (1859–1925). In: Farming Country Austria. Trauner 1974, p. 718 ff.
Web links
- Literature by and about Georg Wieninger in the catalog of the German National Library
- Government Councilor Ing. Georg Wieninger - a pioneer in agriculture .
- South America in Upper Austria - Reflections on the Georg Wieninger Collection, Schlossmuseum 2001 .
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Wieninger, Georg |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Austrian beer brewer, politician and agricultural scientist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | April 5, 1859 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Schärding |
| DATE OF DEATH | November 3, 1925 |
| Place of death | Schärding |